Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

I feel like my career has always been a series of collisions and accidents. Being in the right place at the right time. Having the right haircut. It's so mad to think that it happened in the way that it happened.

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?

When you're younger, you think you're in competition with everyone. You think everyone's success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of. You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you're in competition with is yourself.

What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.